w
w
ap
eP
m
e
tr
.X
w
om
.c
s
er
SYLLABUS UPDATE
CAMBRIDGE PRE-U CLASSICAL GREEK SYLLABUS 9787
Please note the following clarification to the syllabus for examination in 2012.
Page 13
Appendix 1: Prescribed Texts and Theme Texts for Paper 1 – Verse Literature
Prescribed texts
Homer Iliad 1
Recommended text: Homer Iliad 1, ed. J. A. Harrison and R. H. Jordan (BCP, 1991)
or
Sophocles Philoctetes 50-134; 319-90; 453-506; 542-675; 867-1080
Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the rest of Philoctetes in translation.
Recommended text: Sophocles Philoctetes ed. T. B. L. Webster (CUP, 1974)
Theme texts
Theme, Homer Iliad 1: Fate and the Gods
Homer Iliad 8, 9, 16, 18, 24
Homer Odyssey 1, 24
Theme: Sophocles Philoctetes 50-134; 319-90; 453-506; 542-675; 867-1080: The Tragic Hero
Sophocles Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus
Euripides Medea
Page 14
Appendix 2: Prescribed Texts for Paper 2 – Prose Literature
Thucydides VII, 59.2-87
Recommended text: Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War Book VII, ed. K. J. Dover
(Oxford, 1965)
Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the rest of Book VII in translation.
or
Plato Phaedo 60c8-77a5, 115b1-118a17
Recommended text: Plato Phaedo, ed. C. J. Rowe (Cambridge, 1993)
Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the rest of Phaedo in translation.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
1
Page 15
Appendix 3: Suggested Bibliography
General reference
Boardman, J., Griffin, J., Murray, O. (eds.) 2001 The Oxford History of the Classical World
(Oxford)
Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds.) 2003 The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition
(Oxford)
General reading
Ash, R. and Sharrock, A. 2002 Fifty Key Classical Authors (London)
Croally, N. and Hyde, R. (eds.) forthcoming Classical Literature: an introduction (London)
Rutherford, R. 2005 Classical Literature: a Concise History (Oxford)
On Greek literature
Easterling, P. and Knox, B. (eds.) 1985 The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Vol. 1
(Cambridge)
Said, S. and Trédé, M. 1999 A Short History of Greek Literature (London and New York)
Taplin, O. (ed.) 2000 Literature in the Greek World (Oxford)
Whitmarsh, T. 2004 Ancient Greek Literature (Polity Press)
Verse
Homer Iliad 1; Theme: Fate and the Gods
Cairns, D. (ed.) 2002 Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (Oxford)
Camps, W. A. 1980 An Introduction to Homer (Oxford)
Edwards, M. 1990 Homer: Poet of the Iliad (John Hopkins)
Fowler, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge)
Griffin, J. 1980 Homer on Life and Death (Oxford)
Jenkyns, R. 1998 Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil (London)
Jones, P. 1992 Homer’s Odyssey: a companion (BCP)
Morris, I. and Powell, B. (eds.) 1997 A New Companion to Homer (Leiden)
Powell, B. 2004 Homer (Oxford)
Rutherford, R. 1996 Homer (Greece and Rome New Surveys, Oxford)
Schein, S. 1984 The Mortal Hero: an introduction to Homer’s Iliad (Berkeley)
Schein, S. 1996 Reading the Odyssey (Princeton)
Scully, S. 1990 Homer and the Sacred City (Ithaca)
Silk, M. 2004 The Iliad (Cambridge)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
2
Sophocles Philoctetes 50-134; 319-90; 453-506; 542-675; 867-1080; Theme: The Tragic Hero
Allan, W. 2003 Euripides: Medea (Duckworth)
Baldock, M. 1989 Greek Tragedy: an introduction (BCP)
Blundell, M. 1989 Helping Friends and Harming Enemies (Cambridge)
Carter, D. 2007 The Politics of Greek Tragedy (Exeter)
Casapo, E. and Slater, W. 1994 The Context of Athenian Drama (Michigan)
Easterling, P. (ed.) 1997 The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge)
Goldhill, S. D. 1986 Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge)
Goldhill, S. D. 2007 How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today (Chicago)
Goldhill, S. D. and Hall, E. (eds.) 2009 Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition (Cambridge)
Gould, T. F. and Herington, C. J. 2009 Greek Tragedy (Yale Classical Press)
Gregory, J. (ed.) 2005 The Blackwell’s Companion to Classical Greek Tragedy (Blackwell)
Griffin, J. 1999 Sophocles Revisited (Oxford)
Hall, E. 2010 Greek Tragedy: suffering under the sun (Oxford)
Harvey, P. and Howatson, M. P. (eds.) 2003 The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
(Oxford)
Hesk, J. 2004 Sophocles: Ajax (Duckworth)
Knox, B. 1957 Oedipus at Thebes (New Haven)
Knox, B. 1964 The Heroic Temper (Berkeley)
McAuslan, I. and Walcot, P. (eds.) 1983 Classical Greek Tragedy (Longman)
McDermott, E. 1989 Euripides’ Medea: the incarnation of disorder (Pennsylvania)
Meier, C. 1993 The Political Nature of Greek Tragedy (Baltimore; trans. A. Webber)
Rabinowitz, N. S. 2008 Greek Tragedy (Blackwell)
Roisman, H. M. 2005 Sophocles: Philoctetes (Duckworth)
Segal, C. 1981 Tragedy and Civilization: an interpretation of Sophocles (Cambridge, Mass.)
Segal, C. 1998 Sophocles’ Tragic World (Cambridge, Mass.)
Segal, E. 1989 Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford)
Silk, M. (ed.) 1996 Tragedy and the Tragic (Oxford)
Taplin, O. 1978 Greek Tragedy in Action (London)
Vernant, J-P. and Vidal-Naquet, P. 1988 Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (New York;
trans. J. Lloyd)
Vickers, B. 1973 Towards Classical Greek Tragedy (Longman)
Wiles, D. 2000 Greek Theatre Performance (Cambridge)
Winkler, H. and Zeitlin, F. (eds.) 1990 Nothing to Do With Dionysos? (Princeton)
Winnington-Ingram, R. P. 1980 Sophocles: an interpretation (Cambridge)
Zeitlin, F. 1996 Playing the Other (Chicago)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
3
Prose
Thucydides 7. 59.2-87
Cartwright, D. 1997 A Historical Commentary on Thucydides (Michigan)
Dover, K. 1973 Greece and Rome: Thucydides
Greenwood, E. 2006 Thucydides and the shaping of history (Duckworth)
Hornblower, S. 1987 Thucydides (London)
Hornblower, S. 2002 The Greek World 479-323 BC (Routledge)
Hornblower, S. 2008 A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. III (Oxford)
Kagan, D. 2009 Thucydides: the reinvention of history (Viking)
Macleod, C. 1983 Collected Essays (Oxford)
Morrison, J. V. 2006 Reading Thucydides (Ohio)
Rood, T. 1998 Thucydides: narrative and explanation
Zagovin, P. 2008 Thucydides: an introduction for the common reader (Princeton)
Plato Phaedo 60c8-77a5; 115b1-118a17
Ahrensdorf, P. J. 1995 The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy (New York)
Bostock, D. 1986 Plato’s Phaedo (Oxford)
Burnyeat, M. (ed.) Socratic Studies (Cambridge)
Cope, E. M. 2009 Plato’s Phaedo (Bibliobazaar)
Gallup, D. 1975 Plato: Phaedo (Clarendon)
Hare, R. M. 1986 Plato (Oxford)
Kahn, C. 1996 Plato and the Socratic Dialogue (Cambridge)
Kraut, R. (ed.) 1992 The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge)
Long, A. and Sedley, D. 2010 Plato: Meno and Phaedo (Cambridge)
Mason, A. 2010 Plato (Durham)
Patterson, C. H. 1975 Notes on Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo (New York)
Rowe, C. 1984 Plato (Brighton)
Rutherford, R. 1993 The Art of Plato (Duckworth)
Stern, P. 1993 Socratic Rationalism and Political Philosophy: interpretation of Plato’s Phaedo
(New York)
Szlezak, T. 1999 Reading Plato (London)
Vlastos, G. 1991 Socrates: ironist and moral philosopher (Paris)
Wagner, W. 2010 Plato’s Phaedo, with notes critical and exegetical, and an analysis
(Bibliobazaar)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
4